"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

Churchill, Winston on heroes and heroism
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"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."

Dylan, Bob on heroes and heroism
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"A hero is someone right who doesn't change."

Foreman, George on heroes and heroism
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"We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too."

Hayes, Helen on heroes and heroism   

"A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around."

Howe, Edgar Watson on heroes and heroism
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"Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn't take the drug money, or the daughter who held her tongue again and again. All this anonymous heroism."

Noonan, Peggy on heroes and heroism
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"It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter"

Churchill, Winston on fear
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"The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go."

Churchill, Winston on dogs
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"The price of greatness is responsibility."

Churchill, Winston on greatness
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"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others."

Churchill, Winston on courage
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"Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend."

Churchill, Winston on courage
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"What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour. "

Churchill, Winston on uncategorised   

"The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. "

Churchill, Winston on uncategorised   

"Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves. "

Churchill, Winston on uncategorised   

"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in Gods good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old. "

Churchill, Winston on uncategorised
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"One woman who managed to corner him, the story runs, said in a treacly gushing voice:Doesnt it thrill you, Mr. Churchill, to know that every time you make a speech the hall is packed to overflowing?It is quite flattering, Mr. Churchill replied, but whenever I feel this way I always remember that if instead of making a political speech I was being hanged, the crowd would be twice as big. "

Churchill, Winston on uncategorised   

"If you are going through hell, keep going."

Churchill, Winston on running
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"Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted."

Unknown, Source on character
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"When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened."

Churchill, Winston on worry
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"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."

Churchill, Winston on truth
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"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."

Churchill, Winston on life
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"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

Churchill, Winston on opportunity
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"Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party."

Churchill, Winston on politics
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"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more."

Churchill, Winston on quotations
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"When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber."

Churchill, Winston on silence
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"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

Churchill, Winston on simplicity
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"If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack."

Churchill, Winston on speakers and speaking
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"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

Churchill, Winston on success
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"The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous."

Nehru, Jawaharlal on virtue
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"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."

Patton, George S. on courage
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"All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on trust
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"We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired."

Jefferson, Joseph on death   

"You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone."

Noonan, Peggy on modern and modernism   

"Who dares wins."

Motto of the British Special Air Service on risk
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"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it."

Roosevelt, Theodore on success
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"Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you."

Peale, Norman Vincent on resentment
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"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."

Franklin, Benjamin on stupidity
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"The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted."

Mother Teresa on disease
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"Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it."

Franklin, Benjamin on advice
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"Sin is sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end."

Talmud, The on sin
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